Oh how I love your entry table, especially the cinnamon cup and penguin.It did make me realize that I forgot all about my mini pinecones I had collected when visiting with Wanda up at Lake Tahoe.Hubby dug them out of a cupboard for me and now I am going to do some kind of wintery display too.I guess Christmas prep time was just too crazy for me this year.

I like your collection of snowflake pins.I bought a couple of Christmas pins at KMart this year and gave them to my grandduaghters.I think they'd make a fun collection too.Still love your little table in the foyer.I don't have a foyer for my table....:0)

Hi Betsy - winter is coming I think ... love it that Mr Penquin has decided to appear. The snowflake pins are lovely ... and the Christmas tree is very clever. Your photo of skiing grandparents is very special .. it's so interesting to see how they dressed and the equipment they had 90 years ago ... cheers Hilary

Very pretty as ever. You had un uncle named Bright? Was it Ida's maiden name or something? My family all have such ordinary names.Except hundreds of years ago there was a Miss Fade who married into my mother's family and named her son Fade. The name was used for several generations before it fell out of use.

What is this I see before me? A blackboard, sorry, a chalkboard (it is not politically correct to say blackboard in this country) with "Welcome Winter" scrawled on it? Are you heap big crazy Cherokee squaw?Welcome winter indeed; with its frost, snow, ice, rain, cold, winds, high energy bills, gloomy overcast skies and short daylight hours. Bah! I cant wait for the steamy hot days of Summer. . . .

Yes, this Cherokee/Irish girl wished for winter and welcomed it with open arms! I made this little display on my foyer table and wouldn't you know, we woke this morning to SNOW! Yes big smile here...No, I won't share! haha.

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“What a wonderful God we have.
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Christ, the source of every mercy,
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My fondest hope for each one of you -- and especially for the young people here -- is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here.

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.
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